Sensor event controller

• US 20070266310A1
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fukui, Masayuki, Matsumoto, Tatsuro, Sasaki, Kazuo, Takahashi, Eiichi, Yano, Ai, Iwayama, Yutaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,254,543 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A sensor event controller dynamically switches a destination to which sensor event data are to be notified, according to a service application program (AP) that a user is using,. and notifies sensor event data in compliance with an interface of the service AP as the notification destination. An information collection part stores information for identification of a service AP used on a browser and header information transmitted/received between the browser and the service AP in a collected data storage part. Upon receiving sensor event data, a data-notified application determination part decides that the service AP used on the browser is a service AP as the notification destination, by referring to the collected data storage part. A notified data conversion part converts the sensor event data so that the data are compliant with an input interface of the service AP as the notification destination, and transmits a processing request to the service AP as the notification destination, the processing request being generated by adding the header information to the converted sensor event data.

Claims

1. A sensor event controller for notifying sensor event data obtained from a sensor device to a service application program designed for accepting a processing request containing an input from a browser and returning a result of a requested processing operation to the browser, the sensor event controller comprising:

an information collection part that collects information for identification of a service application program that is being used on a browser, and header information transmitted/received between the browser and the service application program, and stores the same as collected data in a collected data storage part;

a data reception part that receives sensor event data obtained from the sensor device;

a data-notified application determination part that, referring to the collected data in the collected data storage part, decides that the service application program that is being used on the browser is a service application program as a destination to which the sensor event data are to be notified;

a data conversion part that converts the sensor event data received by the data reception part under conversion rules preliminarily defined with respect to the service application program as the notification destination, so that the data are compliant with an input interface of the service application program as the notification destination;

an application invocation part that transmits a processing request to the service application program as the notification destination, the processing request being generated by adding the header information contained in the collected data in the collected data storage part to the converted sensor event data; and

a contents transmission part that transmits a result of a requested processing operation received from the service application program to the browser.

2. The sensor event controller according to claim 1, wherein

a sensor identifier for identification of a sensor device is added to sensor event data, and

the information collection part collects information for identification of a service application program that is being used on a browser, and header information transmitted/received between the browser and the service application program, and stores the same as collected data in the collected data storage part, in a state of being associated with a browser identifier for identification of the browser,

the sensor event controller further comprising:

a linkage registration part that, in order to provide linkage between a browser and a sensor device that a user uses, registers a browser identifier of the browser and a sensor identifier of the sensor device in a linkage table, in a state of being linked with each other; and

a linkage determination part that, when the data reception part receives sensor event data, extracts a browser identifier linked with a sensor identifier added to the received sensor event data, by referring to the linkage table,

wherein the data-notified application determination part, referring to the collected data associated with the browser identifier in the collected data storage part, decides that a service application program that is being used on a browser corresponding to the browser identifier is a service application program as a destination to which the sensor event data are to be notified, and

the application invocation part transmits a processing request to the service application program as the notification destination, the processing request being generated by adding the header information contained in the collected data associated with the browser identifier in the collected data storage part to the sensor event data converted by the data conversion part.

3. The sensor event controller according to claim 2,

wherein the linkage registration part causes a browser to display a screen that allows a user to input a sensor identifier of a sensor device that the user wishes to link with the browser, and upon input of a sensor identifier, registers the input sensor identifier and a browser identifier of the browser in the linkage table, in a state of being linked with each other.

4. The sensor event controller according to claim 2,

wherein the linkage registration part uses a user identifier input via a browser as a browser identifier of the browser.

5. The sensor event controller according to claim 4,

wherein the linkage registration part registers, in the linkage table, a user identifier obtained by causing a sensor device to read a medium in which the user identifier is recorded, and a sensor identifier of the sensor device that carried out the reading of the user identifier, in a state in which the user identifier and the sensor identifier are linked with each other.

6. The sensor event controller according to claim 1, further comprising:

a linkage determination part that extracts as a sensor identifier an IP address contained in sensor event data, and decides that an IP address identical to the extracted sensor identifier is a browser identifier corresponding to the sensor identifier,

wherein the information collection part collects information for identification of a service application program that is being used on a browser, and header information transmitted/received between the browser and the service application program, and stores the same as collected data in the collected data storage part, in a state of being associated with a browser identifier of the browser,

the data-notified application determination part, referring to the collected data associated with the browser identifier in the collected data storage part, decides that a service application program that is being used on a browser corresponding to the browser identifier is a service application program as a destination to which the sensor event data are to be notified, and

the application invocation part transmits a processing request to the service application program as the notification destination, the processing request being generated by adding the header information contained in the collected data associated with the browser identifier in the collected data storage part to the sensor event data converted by the data conversion part.

7. The sensor event controller according to claim 1,

wherein the sensor device is a RFID reader.

8. A program product storing a sensor event control program in a recording medium, the sensor event control program being designed to cause a computer to execute a processing operation of notifying sensor event data obtained from a sensor device to a service application program designed for accepting a processing request containing an input from a browser and returning a result of a requested processing operation to the browser, the program comprising instructions for allowing a computer to execute the following operations of;

collecting information for identification of a service application program that is being used on the browser, and header information transmitted/received between the browser and the service application program, and stores the same as collected data in a collected data storage part;

receiving the sensor event data obtained from the sensor device;

referring to the collected data in the collected data storage part, and deciding that the service application program that is being used on the browser is a service application program as a destination to which the sensor event data are to be notified;

converting the sensor event data under conversion rules preliminarily defined with respect to the service application program as the notification destination, so that the data are compliant with an input interface of the service application program as the notification destination;

transmitting a processing request to the service application program as the notification destination, the processing request being generated by adding the header information contained in the collected data in the collected data storage part to the converted sensor event data; and

transmitting a result of a requested processing operation received from the service application program to the browser.